July 2007 - Posts

• My Energy Flows with the Solstices

  This may come as no surprise to some, but just recently I've noticed that my energy fluctuations, over an entire year, move in sync with the sun. My energy runs pretty high in May and June, right before the longest day of the year (Summer Solstice--June Read More... Posted Monday, July 30, 2007 10:57 AM by jer | 0 Comments Filed under: Gardening, Life

• Free Salad Greens - Wild Edibles

  We've actually been gathering plenty of salad greens all Spring and now into the Summer. Here's what we've been eating: Spinach - which my husband planted last Fall. Somehow it survived all of our blizzards, and came in strong in early Spring. Read More... Posted Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:45 AM by jer | 0 Comments Filed under: Food

• A Healing Herb and Salad Green, right in our own back yards

  My friend pointed out to me, growing as a weed in my backyard, the plant called Common Plantain. I had never noticed it before. But it turns out that it is edible (the young leaves in salads or in soups and casseroles), and that it has many various medicinal Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2007 10:26 AM by jer | 0 Comments Filed under: Gardening, Food

• The Good Neighbors -- a BBC TV show

  Recommended by a friend who knows me well, I've been getting episodes of BBC's The Good Neighbors from Netflix and watching it with my daughter. We're both enjoying it tremendously. I believe this show aired in the 70's. It's about Read More... Posted Friday, July 20, 2007 10:12 AM by jer | 0 Comments Filed under: Gardening, Life

• Business Idea--A Most Unusual Restaurant

  I'd love to see this restaurant exist--if I were to do it, I'd call it The Prancing Pony. The idea is that when you walk through the door, it would feel like you just stepped through a time portal into another world and another time. Everything Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 18, 2007 8:35 AM by jer | 1 Comments Filed under: Wierd Stuff, Entrepreneurial Ideas

• Sugar Cravings and Candida

  I have a terrible sweet tooth. It gets worse in the summertime, when my usual daily rigor relaxes and we enjoy ice cream and candy by the pool, and root beer floats from Sonic. Though I had struggled with candida and many yeast infections in the past, Read More... Posted Thursday, July 12, 2007 10:17 PM by jer | 1 Comments Filed under: Food

• The No Diet Diet Plan

  How do I know that this Right-Brain Dieting is working? First of all, I noticed that with my right brain in charge, I was becoming more in tune with my body, and listening to it constantly. As a result, I have found myself, overall, eating less than I Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 10, 2007 10:11 PM by jer | 1 Comments Filed under: Food

• I Turned my Dieting Over to my Right Brain

  After the past several years of being stuck on the always-dieting-but-never-losing-weight-that-sticks roller-coaster, I finally got fed up. I decided to take a leap and turn over this struggle completely to my right brain (instincts), as my left brain Read More... Posted Sunday, July 08, 2007 10:03 PM by jer | 0 Comments Filed under: Food

• My Life as a Deer

  I've found a totally unique and surprisingly fun online multiplayer game. It's called " The Endless Forest " and you are a deer with a human-like face. Because deer can't talk, you can only communicate with other deer using body Read More... Posted Monday, July 02, 2007 1:48 PM by jer | 0 Comments Filed under: Wierd Stuff

• I'm Baaaaack!

  After 2 months of my blog out of commission, we've gotten the problem fixed and now I'm back! Read More... Posted Monday, July 02, 2007 1:47 PM by jer | 0 Comments